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GAR GOUPLING. No. 290,005. Paten'madv Deo. 11, 1883.

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WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

- wanna and State of I jection holds the MICHAEL UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

J. DOUGHERTY, OF OARBONDALE, PA., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF v'IO JOHN BUBNE'IT AND EDWARD MCHAIIE, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

QAR-COUPL-ING.

SPECIFICATION forming vpart of Letters Patent No.V 290,005, dated December 11, 1883.

Application flied october 3, Issa. (No moda.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL J. Docen- EE'IY, of Carbondale, in the county of Lacka- Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Car-Coupling, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

rIhe invention consists in the combination,

with a draw-head, of apendulous bar pivoted to or suspended from the same, which bar is provided at the lower end. which is within the draw-head, with a weighted lug, and with a projection extending in the direction toward the outer end of the draw-head, which procoupling-pin raised until the entering` link pushes the pendulous bar back and permits the pin to drop lthrough the link.

Reference is to be'had to thevaccompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the gures.

Figure l is alongitudinal sectional elevation of two cars 'coupled by means of my improved coupler. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of a car provided with my improved coupler.

rIhe draw -head A, which is of the usual construction, is provided in the bottom with a longitudinal slot, A', infront of which the usual pin -apertures areprovided. Two blocks, B, project from the end ofthe car, and on one of them a standard, B', is secured, to which a lever, C, is pivoted, which passes through a longitudinal slot, D', in a standard, D, on the other bumper or block B. An offset or shoul der, E,is formed in one edge of the slot D', on which offset the free end ofthe lever C can be rested when the said free end of the lever is to be held raised.v The lever E extends to the side 'of the car, or nearly so, and, ifdesired, can be connected with a rod extending to the top of the car. To the middle of the lever E is pivoted a pendulous locking-bar,

F, which is and rovided at its lower end with an inwardly downwardly inclined weighted lug, G,

and with a prong, H, projecting toward the 4y outer end of the draw-head. The top of the draw-head is provided with an aperture or opening, A2, through which the pendulous bar passes.

The operation is as follows: When a car is 5 uncoupled, the free end of its lever E is raised and held in this position on the shoulder E.

As the coupling-pin J rests on the projection H, it will also be raised. The weighted lug G tends to swing the weighted bar F toward 5 the end of the draw-head, thus keeping the rojection H in place. If thelink K enters,

it strikes the bar F below the projection H -and swingsthe bar F inward, thereby moving the projection H Irom under the pin J, which 1 drops through the link the two cars together.

K, thereby coupling If a link is heldin one draw-head, and the free end of the said link is to be raised more into the opposite higher or lower,

or less, so that it can pass draw-head, which may be the lower weighted end ofthe pendulum-bar 1s permitted to act by its own weight on the inner end of the link more or less, in the manner shown in the right-hand side of Fig. l, by removing the free end of the lever C from the projection E and lowering the lever more or less, as may be required.k Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters standard D, slotted at In a car-coupling, in-supporting bar,

the combination, with a F, of the lever O and D', and havingy shoulder E, as and for the purpose specied.

MICHAEL J. DOUGHERTY.

Witnesses:

WILEUE F. LofrHRor, I. S. JosLIN. 

